Struggles of a Covid-19 frontliner: Carrying on amid fear for family's safety

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Attendees of the Sri Petaling tabligh event queueing up for screening at Klinik Kesihatan Titiwangsa in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend. Dr Samir notes that his worry of being infected is more for his children’s sake than his own. — AZHAR MAHFOF/The StarEarlier this month , Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah praised the specialist for his quick action in voluntarily distancing himself from his private hospital and clinic in Kuala Lumpur, as well as his family for 14 days.

“I couldn’t go to the gym, so I worked out in the apartment to build my six-pack, ” he laughs, “and caught up with reading medical stuff. Dr Sanjiv says, “I was isolating myself out of duty and I never went home, but the schools didn’t seem to understand this – It was disappointing.” Every weekday morning, he walks into his workplace at Klinik Kesihatan Gombak Setia in Kuala Lumpur and sanitises his hands.

“Hopefully, I can lose some weight, but the scales don’t show any changes yet, ” jokes Dr Samir, who also works at Hospital Selayang’s emergency department during the weekends.

 

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